Automated Workflows Help You Maximize Preventive Maintenance Benefits
Maintaining the equipment your business uses is an excellent way to reduce waste and extract the most value from your equipment. Yet we can come up for any number of excuses not to practice preventive maintenance – excuses mostly related to “not having the time.” But in reality, practicing preventive maintenance frees up time over […]
Manage Office Safety with Online Forms and Automated Workflows
In some work environments, it’s obvious why safety training and procedures must be extensive and frequently updated. Heavy equipment, potentially hazardous chemicals, and tools that operate at high temperatures necessitate extensive and constant attention to worker safety. But even if your business takes place in an air-conditioned office where the only “heavy equipment” is a […]
Your Online Forms Should Be Easy to Integrate with Other Systems
The benefits of transitioning from using paper forms filled out by hand to using electronic forms can be revolutionary for business. Beyond this transition, however, lie many additional benefits that come from integrating online forms with other business systems and processes. Moving away from paper-based forms is one of the most important first steps in […]
Workflow vs. Process: How Are They Different?
Every business has processes, whether or not they call them that. If you operate a florist service, you have processes for getting inventory in, processes for creating flower arrangements, and processes for delivering them to people. If you run a medical clinic, you have processes for registering new patients, performing and documenting exams, and for […]
Using Workflow Software for Process Mapping
Process mapping is essentially creation of a flowchart. You don’t necessarily have to know what the different shapes of various flowchart elements mean to create a process map, but it can be helpful. Think of a very simple process you use at work, such as the process of admitting a visitor to the workplace. Steps […]
Make Forms and Workflows More Powerful by Sharing Data
Think about how much data the typical business collects (or has the potential to collect) every day. Sometimes, data that may seem perfectly mundane may have atypical uses that can take your business operations to the next level. For example, suppose you have a social media advertising team responsible for placing ads on social platforms […]
How Automated Workflows Build Institutional Archives and Repositories
Over time, businesses and other organizations build up a “knowledge base” from the experiences of the people who work there. This so-called institutional knowledge is apart from the knowledge required to operate the business, and may include things like technical presentations at conferences, help documents created by long-time employees for new people, and publications about […]
How Automated Workflows Make Change Orders Easier
Change orders are written agreements between an owner and a contractor for changes to the original contract. They may broaden the scope of the original contract, establish new items necessary for the change, cover changes to the basis of payment, and spell out time adjustments resulting from the change. Typically, change orders are considered in […]
The Transition from BPM to DPA: What You Should Know
Business process management (BPM) is fairly self-explanatory as a concept. It means examining and controlling the processes present in a business, and then where possible and practical, modifying the processes so they’re as effective and efficient as possible. But BPM is more a general business practice than a prescriptive concept, because each business must identify […]
How to Use Workflows to Capture Marginal Gains for Your Business
The concept of marginal gains is simple: small, incremental improvements eventually add up to significant improvements. One of the most famous examples of putting marginal gains to work involved Sir David Brailsford, performance director for British Cycling, who used marginal gains to take the British team from being “a laughing stock” to winning 16 Olympic […]
